Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: Christiana Abraham Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 104 ISBN: 9783843391788
Описание
This study presents a critical analysis of Panache magazine, a fashion and lifestyle magazine for world majority women that located women other than ‘white'' and ‘western'' as its central subject and audience. Panache was a trail blazer in developing a fashion magazine format for world majority women where an alternative space was deliberately created for imagining beautiful images for a major demographic that established magazines had virtually ignored. Importantly, the text traces a legacy of ''otherness'' around the notion of the “savage” woman and locates contemporary media practice as central in the trans-historical reproduction of colonial knowledges of difference. It analyses how Panache magazine conducted its kind of resistance within the confining boundaries of this most unexpected genre - the women''s magazine. This study re-visits the process through which Panache magazine produced its representational practice. There are many lessons to be gleaned from...
